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- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 6 days ago:
At least it’s short term. “Have a good rest of your day. I don’t give a shit about your tomorrow though”
- Comment on Does it get windy in New York City? 6 days ago:
Downvoting your comment because it’s hard to see my screen outside in the sun
- Comment on Does it get windy in New York City? 6 days ago:
That’s 3 reasons, none of which are any more concrete than the other.
- Public speakers that talk too much
- Politicians that exaggerate/lie
- Wind
- Comment on Are there communities online where artists share their art for free / donation? 6 days ago:
As with all lemmy, the volume is low, but we do have c/artshare here with some frequent callers. Here on World, I think
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 1 week ago:
If that was the reason smartphones place periods, they’d leave double spaces and throw a period before them. They don’t, they replace a space with the period. It’s just a shortcut with a large target button.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 2 weeks ago:
They’re all heated. The high flow ones just feel cold because they’re evaporating the water faster than it can put heat into your hands. If you hang out an extra 10 seconds with good technique, it’ll be warm.
Are any perfect? Probably not. I don’t have the patience for them and utilize my pants to finish the job. But, some basic understanding goes a long way.
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Drying starts at the sink. Give some good shakes there. You can use your hands to squeegee the other there as well.
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Rub your hands in the drier, vigorously and thoroughly. You need to spread the water thin to speed evaporation. Letting it stay pooled in droplets will only lead to the droplets re-wetting the dry parts as soon as they move. It also helps put your wetter parts on your drier parts, further maximizing your wet surface area.
2a. For the high speed ones, move your hands so it works it’s way from your wrists to your fingertips. This will help fling water off your hands.
- I’m still gonna pat dry on my pants because I can’t waste the extra 10 seconds with all that white noise, but it’s a lot less than how it started. I could do a handshake by time I step out. I call it quits when the air doesn’t feel cold anymore.
Low speed drivers still won’t be worth my time. Again, I promise, I’m wearing pants, and I’ll use them.
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- Comment on Is there a way to listen to only the radio topics I actually care about? 2 weeks ago:
This is highly regional. I don’t get the down votes. And, asking about radio options, makes it sound like OP wants local info, so it’s probably a regional request. I don’t even get the same radio options at opposing ends of my commute.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
That’s my point? My state checks normal cars for OBDII codes and nothing else. One neighboring state does full inspection and fails for rust holes. The other neighbor has no inspection. Saying a street “racer” (which I keep putting in quotes because I’m positive most commenters in this thread aren’t talking about racing) that won’t pass tech shouldn’t be “racing” is acting like the bar is any higher for the average car being driven by someone texting and driving.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
In sea and air, sure. Not as street racers. Not since radios became standard issue for police and even less with much better tracking. Drugs are much more likely to be in a van or gray camry doing the speed limit than a loud exhaust, underglowing, speeding charger.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but the choice to ride naked will only kill themselves [and traumatize others] if they become a meat crayon. The gear doesn’t change what phtsically happens to others in accidents
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
Have you seen the average car on the road? There’s plenty of people driving cars in such disrepair they’re just as dangerous as street “racers” that won’t pass tech. I might prefer a speeder with an old drip over a dipshit that ignored the grinding noise and wore brake pads down to the backing plates
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
Weirdly puritanical view. Drug dealers aren’t running like moonshiners.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
There is nothing cheap about track days unless you mean drag racing. And even still, you know most people’s cars won’t pass tech inspection.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
There’s so little actual street racing that I’m not convinced OP is actually asking about racing. Speeding, weaving, running lights, playing in traffic, stunting motorcycles, sliding cars, donuts, burnouts, takeovers, launches, pulls, hits, runs, and digs can all be variably reckless events that the gen pop will call “racing”. Donuts/burnouts have plenty of crash videos where they damage property. Mustangs eat crowds, chargers smack stopped cars, infinitis hit other takeover kids.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 weeks ago:
Squids have always been gearless riders to me and my circle, not the name for reckless riders
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 4 weeks ago:
Check out the lyrics to “Home” by Corey Taylor, singer of Slipknot (I’m not a fan of the song itself). It’s a romantic-love song, but I think you could find a friend-love meaning in there because it’s about being partners.
Slipknot makes music for us. They reach out to the loners, the outcasts, those abandoned, those forgotten. I have friends double your age into Slipknot. The lyricism has some extreme imagery and obviously their concert presence is scary, but, at the heart of it, it’s painting a picture of sad feelings, screaming out into the void as if it’s anger. He’s hurt and doesn’t want to hurt others the same way. Yes, the music attracts some aggressive people (not getting into THEIR psych right now), but by and large, the fans are people who felt lonely in their teenage years. Look at the lyrics to Slipknot’s “Danger keep away”. He says “we, too, feel alone”. We! There’s something beautiful to be discovered when 10,000 “loners” step into their concert. Maybe you’re not so alone. Maybe you could reach out better to others. Maybe other people have a totally different inside personality but they’re afraid to show it. They’re struggling inside the same way you are. They want to be accepted. Unfortunately, it’s easier to find common disinterest than interests, so it’s so damn easy to earn social points by joking about the weird interests.
I made my judgements in school of other people. They judged me. I drifted away because of that, even from the ones I wanted to call “friend”. Over a decade later, I somewhat reconnected with some. Even my ex. Nothing deep, just casual, but comfortable. You don’t know it yet, but you’re not done growing up. You’ll hopefully realize that for all the times you acted immature, your acquaintances did too. They were also young. I’m not saying their personalities will flip or they’ll become your best friend, but most will hopefully look back and laugh a little. I had a roommate fight about sponge etiquette.
Or maybe you’ll never see them again. That’s fine, shit happens. People move. People get all different jobs. People make new families. If you find yourself dwelling on something you feel you messed up by being awkward or if you’re still angry someone else judged you as uninteresting, try to learn from it. How would you have presented yourself today to improve yourself? Or how would you have presented your interests in a way that’s more amicable to someone entirely unfamiliar? I don’t dive right into talking about nebula composition and orbital mechanics, I pull up some astro pictures I’ve made. I gauge it from there. Would they rather hear more about the camera, the travel, the stars, or are they not interested at all? Switch to cars? Motorcycles? The sci-fi book I’m in? Slipknot? The weather? Nothing? Just because there was no common ground found today doesn’t mean there won’t be in the future.
There’s a cool side effect with never seeing a former social group again: starting entirely fresh in the next one. They don’t know you were weird last time, so there’s no reason to assume they think you’re weird. You don’t have to be interesting all the time, but work on giving a comfortable vibe. Don’t gatekeeper your taste but don’t dive into a whole thesis either.
I won’t agree with the other comment about ditching the degree, but absolutely work on social skills while you’re there. This is a good time to shape them. Join clubs or events. You have a good amount of time and you’ll be in a group of people with an amazingly similar demographics. You’ll come across jerks, you’ll be overly weird. Work on it. You might never see them again or they might never think about that interaction again. So don’t worry about it and don’t beat yourself up.
And then watch Corey Taylor sing the SpongeBob theme song because why the hell not?
But anyway, really, this will work out. It’ll take time. If you’re comfortable with yourself, people will get comfortable with you. You don’t have to be the center of attention, but you’re saying you wish you had some attention. Use that logical communication brain of yours to figure out where you are, where you want to be, and what to do to merge those two identities.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 4 weeks ago:
My 2 cents is get a laptop (or desktop) soon. For educational and technical purposes, I believe it’s way more valuable than is perceived. Around 24, my laptop was so slow I never used it. I relied on my android phone as well, believing it to be the same. It wasn’t. The simplified UI, inaccuracy of small touch screens, and small screen drastically reduced the depth of my device usage. I became a Facebook/reddit blob. I can understand the argument that someone 22 today is likely less adapted to the pc UI, equalizing their depth of usage, but I do not accept the inverse, suggesting my older age makes me significantly worse at using a phone. Even just having a full page worth of information at once, providing context for the entire form, is something lost due to readability on phones by zooming in. Spatial relationship is better retained with a large view than sliding around on a phone. Spatial relations improve memory retention as well.
I’m scatter brained on this explanation because I’ve never written it down before. I just feel for you because your situation isn’t far off from where I was at that time.
I’m finally back into creating art. Even though I’m in a highly technical field, I can’t turn off the creativity. I got back into doodling, back into imagining creations, back into viewing art. There’s no way I could make a career out of it though and I probably wouldn’t want to. I’d hate it soon. But, while I do believe I have a good job now, I’m only here to get paid. But at least now I’m at a point where I can find the emotional energy to be freeform in my own time. Money has leveled out, housing has stabilized, and probably most importantly, I got “more” of a social circle simply by removing all the asterisks I was tacking onto each relationship. Work buddy? Friend. Childhood friend? Friend. Hobby friend? Friend. Friend of a friend? Friend. Limited shared activity friend? Friend. Online-only hobby friend? Well, turns out, I traveled that way and they welcomed me into their home. What do you know, friend.
Fuck. Where am I even going? Other people are giving you technical advice but I read your post as someone stuck in their feelings rather than in their logic. I don’t know.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 5 weeks ago:
Have you been in a desert at night? It gets cold, fast. Have you ever dug a few inches down into sand and touched it? It’s much colder than the blazing surface in the summer. Deserts to not typically have dirt, they have sand. Black panels shading a typically black roof will of course decouple the heating from the building. Black panels shading a very pale, very reflective, very insulative ground material is going to absorb and retain more heat
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 1 month ago:
This week marks 10 years with my Xbox One Forza Motorsport 6 edition. I was thinking that’s a good mile marker to admit it’s struggling under modern games and upgrade to a disc XSX. Guess I won’t expect any cool discounts this holiday. Probably just discounted to the prior price.
I really like the blue console/controller with racing stripes and car sounds, so it’s a shame they haven’t matched that. Part of the reason I didn’t want to replace it yet
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 1 month ago:
The right wing voters already believe OSHA is just an obstruction tog getting the job done. OSHA is the reason your climbing harness has interlocking double carabiners. Else, your job would only pay for one carabiner. Maybe.
OSHA rules aren’t here to treat your job like a daycare. The rules are here because employers will fuck over their employees as close to the letter of the law as they can. No laws, no holding back.
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 1 month ago:
Not a true sim, but Ace Combat 7 novice controls are non-inverted. I feel like Far Cry 5/6 and definitely Fortnite put the non-inverted pitch control on the planes, which were not the focus of the game. I assumed other plane-including games did the same.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 month ago:
Similarly, I fell out of the android/pixel communities when I left reddit. I don’t know what’s popular, either. I’d guess Lemmy generally agrees with me, but we’re not the general population. I just want my piece of informational technology to keep it simple to get information. New functions are cool, power-thirsty UI animations and changes to familiar UI elements every 3 months is not (imo)
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 1 month ago:
For decades, we’ve had a question live as a meme of misunderstanding and yet, it’s exactly the question this committee should be asking now instead: “who is 4chan?”
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 month ago:
droid-life.com/…/android-16-teases-secret-ui-upda…
Pixel, specifically. My 7 is what just updated. Blur through drawers. At this point, I can’t remember if my app icons were already circles, but now I’m looking at them now again and still hate them. Sliders now have detached bar indicators. Cartoonish status icons. It’s another step into iPhone styling to, I guess, tackle a market demo that thinks the phone market is Samsung vs iphone.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 1 month ago:
Are you sure it’s not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It’s been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.
- Comment on Has a person ever pretended to be a major Republican did a podcast interviews and everythinng else? While raking in a butt load of money? The turn around and be like HA MF's I am a liberal? 1 month ago:
He got invited to the Bush Whitehouse dinner and they were surprised Colbert roasted Dubya
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 month ago:
They are genuinely bad with anologies and empathy. That’s how they got to be conservative. Everything taken at face value, nothing they haven’t experienced is real. Fascists are people named Mussolini. See? This isn’t 1930s Italy, so this isn’t fascism
- Comment on How does streaming compare to "analog"? 1 month ago:
I’d say just as you can run your own server cooler (turn it off when not needed), Netflix servers are going to wind down during low demand and run lower power. But while you’re picturing you last laptop as a server vs a data center, try to picture every household out there running their own “server” the same way. Some are watching, some aren’t. I think OP’s question is more appropriate, comparing streaming to broadcast rather than streaming vs local storage. Besides, how’d you get that data? You transported physical media or downloaded it from a server.
- Comment on Cinderella's Millennium Falcon 1 month ago:
Not yet, Disney doesn’t have those vampires
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 month ago:
Hopefully, it told you that’s not a sign of a worn clutch. Assuming no computer interference and purely mechanical effects, then that’s a sign the clutch is dragging. A worn clutch would provide more of an air gap with the pedal depressed than a fresh clutch. If you want to see a partial list of potential causes, see my reply to the other comment that replied to you.
Your questions are still not proof that LLMs are filling some void. If you think of a traditional encyclopedia, of course it’s not going to know what the colors of one manufacturer’s sandpapers mean. I’m sure that’s answered somehow on their website or wherever you came across the two colors in the same grit and format. Chances are, if one is more expensive and doesn’t have a defined difference in abrasive material, the pricier one is going to last longer by way of having stronger backing paper, better abrasive adhesive, and better resistance to clogging. Whether or not the price is necessary for your project is a different story. ChatGPT is reading the same info available to you. But if you don’t understand the facts presented on the package, then how can you trust the LLM to tokenize it correctly to you?
Similarly, a traditional encyclopedia isn’t going to have a direct answer to your clutch question, but, if it has thorough mechanical entries (with automotive specifics), you might be able to piece it together. You’d learn the “engine” spins in unison up to the flywheel, the flywheel is the mating surface for the clutch, the clutch pedal disengages the clutch from the flywheel, and that holding the pedal down for 5+ seconds should make the transmission input components spin down to a stop (even in neutral). You’re trusting the LLM here to have a proper understanding of those linked mechanical devices. It doesn’t. It’s aggregating internet sources, buzzfeed style, and presenting anything it finds in a corrupted stream of tokens. Again, if you’re not brought up to speed on how those components interact, then how do you know what it’s saying is correct?
Obviously, the rebuttal is how can you trust anyone’s answer if you’re not already knowledgeable? Peer review is great for forums/social sites/wikipedias in the way of people correcting other comments. But beyond that, for formal informational sites, vetting places as a source - a skill being actively eroded with Google or ChatGPT “giving” answers. Neither are actually answering your questions. They’re regurgitating things they found elsewhere. Remember, Google was happy to take reddit answers as fact and tell you elmers glue will hold cheese to pizza and cockroaches live in cocks. If you saw those answers with their high upvote count, you’d understand the nuance that reddit loves shitty sarcastic answers for entertainment value. LLMs don’t because they, literally, don’t understand anything. It’s up to you to figure out if you should trust an algorithm-promoted Facebook page called “car hacks and facts” filled with bullshit videos. It’s up to you to figure out if everythingcar. com is untrustworthy because it has vague, expansive wording and has more ad space than information.